IO Technologies Announces $29.99 Baseboard for Cubieboard

The Cubieboard is a low cost development board powered by AllWinner A10 with 512MB/1GB RAM, 4GB NAND and lots of interfaces. However some of processor interfaces are only available via the extension headers, and access to interfaces like VGA and LVDS would normally require some (minor) hardware hacking. That’s why George Ioakimedes (IO Technologies LLC) has decided to design and manufacture a carrier board (baseboard) for the Cubieboard.

@Marius
hmm, if you want to buy one you have to monitor miniand regularly…
I don’t know if it’s because they have problems with sourcing components, or if it’s because they want to be extra careful with stocks, and only plan manufacturing once stocks are nearly depleted.

@Marius
It’s back in stock: https://cubieboard.myshopify.com/
But depending on your country, you may only be able to choose more expensive DHL shipping, because Tom is only allowing China Post shipping to countries where customs are known not to cause problems. If there’s no China Post option for your country, and you know these problems don’t apply there, you can mention it here:http://groups.google.com/group/cubieboard/t/e6ccdd4d02267b84
There are also AliExpress sellers with stocks & (more or less) reasonable prices.

Cubieboard it’s based on allwinner. So no GPL code for hardware acceleration under linux (Almost every supplier is violating GPL in cina). This suck so much for a “supposed developer board”. Better go with other kind of SOCs like raspberry or Amlogic based soc.

@yareg
As long as you used Paypal you should be OK I guess. They’re probably legit if they offer Paypal.

@Nessuno
I’m not realyl sure what you’re talking about. No ARM vendor offers hardware acceleration under Linux, not open source anyway.
Raspberry Pie is just too weak and it’s not that open source either. The Amlogic stuff is harder to find and Allwinner has a big advantage over others, their stuff uses a config file.
This really helps a lot, I have a Chinese tablet with no sources but I’m able to use a generic open source kernel togerther with its config file.
Also Allwinner has linux-sunxi which is a pretty OK community working on the kernel and Linux stuff.

To be quite hones I don’t care much for XBMC but I know reverse engineering of the Allwinner stuff is a WIP so it will probably work on Allwinner soon enough.
You’re right though, that’s probably what he ment. I was thinking about the 3D stuff where we don’t really have anything that’s open source on ARM, except maybe for Freedreno I guess.